Sir William Honywood, 2nd Baronet (ca. 1654 – 8 June 1748) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1685 to 1695. Honywood was the son of Sir Edward Honywood, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Maynard, daughter of Sir John Maynard of Tooting, Surrey. He inherited the

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on the death of his father in 1670/ In 1685 Honywood was elected

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and

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for

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and held the seat until 1695. Honywood married Anna Christiana Newman daughter of Richard Newman of Fifehead Magdalen in Dorset. They had two sons and four daughters. He died at Evington at the age of 94 and was buried at Elmstead. His grandson Edward succeeded in the baronetcy.

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